POE Switching

[Elespecia]

I might be out on thin ice requesting features but one major feature would be to have the POE-ports as binary switches. https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/104614 Gotta learn coding so I can contribute for real.

[erwinvana]

I second this request.

[baylanger]

@zachcheatham is your switch for sale? I’m waiting for mine, back order 😂

I haven’t checked the code of this project yet, I’ve figured I’d do that when I get my switch. It might be very simple to add. Not sure how busy @zachcheatham is these days but he offered to help. If you have free time and know what you’re doing, he can likely work with you.

[baylanger]

@Elespecia sorry I tag you… instead of @zachcheatham

Updated ☝️

[ElStupid]

Really would love that too. To manage energy consumption while I'm away or asleep, I would like to be able to switch off AP's. Keep up the good work @zachcheatham !

[ZdenekM]

Also might be useful to reboot or recover unreliable devices like Chinese cameras... So far, I have to call poe recover from Omada Controller manually but it would be great if HA can do it for me :)

[zachcheatham]

I would love to add this feature, but I do not have an Omada switch in my network to test with. If anyone with a switch wants to take on this feature, it would be much appreciated.

[wuppiwuppi]

Hi, i got HA and your add-on in debug mode running. Now looking into the API "Omada_SDN_Controller_V5.0.15 API Document" it seems that it is not possible to set the "port override -> poe on / off" option via the api? The only option that I can find in the API is editing a port profile, which will affect all ports with that profile.

Also: all that homeassistant stuff is a lot more complicated than expected O_o

[star3141]

Hi!

I would love that feature too. Alternatively, I am trying to figure out how to do that by means of SNMP but, unfortunately, without success at the moment.

[tensiondriven]

Forgive me for asking a question unrelated to implementation of the specific feature; I'm curious, what is the use case for wanting to turn off power to a PoE port? I've never run into this use case, nor can I think of one... surely im missing something

[baylanger]

1. Save Energy
2. Potentially increase life expectancy of PoE port, switch's ACDC power adapter and PoE devices.

. security cameras, indoor or outdoor are not always needed 7/24. . outdoor / far / office wifi spot not needed at night . VoIP phone, not at night either - only after I had my coffe :p . any devices powered on via PoE over ~5-24/VDC (small hubs, IoT, RasberryPi, etc)

With price of electricity and cost of switches/devices, seems this would be a nice green option to have.

That said. I have 2 Netgear switch, the last one I bought was a Pro. There's no API or console access. I started to looking around at options that can allow me to do it. My current fallback is a Cisco 300 Series and can do it over ssh.

My dream is to have home-assistant call an API to get the status of the PoE for each port and be able as well to control them.

[baylanger]

Can also be useful if a device becomes unresponsive (ping) .. or unstable video stream from camera/bad image...

My router (mikrotik) facing my ISP is powered up as well over PoE. Currently anything on PoE that freezes, it's faster to go downstairs then to ssh.

[wuppiwuppi]

Yes - if a PoE powered RaspberryPi or other device becomes unresponsive -> being able to power cycle it would be nice.

For me it is a power-saving issue.

[TommySharpNZ]

This is pretty much the one feature of the "official" Omada integration at the moment. Works well so I have both integrations loaded :-)